@guidonld
Sicilian-Scottish Professor and Lawyer passionate about EU law and technology for the common good. Author "Internet of Things and the Law". Programme Leader MSc/LLM Law, Tech & Innovation @lawstrath.bsky.social They/he π³οΈβπ https://linktr.ee/guidonld
Can AI be good for sustainability? Come to @unistrathclyde.bsky.social's Glasgow campus to participate in this interactive workshop, as part of the Glasgow Goes Green festival. No prerequisite knowledge needed, just curiosity! www.eventbrite.com/e/can-ai-be-...
Protect VPN use in the UK action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
An important takeaway β the High Court has made clear that the Code of Practice has gotten the law wrong. It will need to be rejected by the Minister.
The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs β around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Grazie @guidonld.bsky.social for the unexpected life pivot. π
Check out #Legal4Tech, a podcast by a lovely group of Law & Tech enthusiasts. Here I talk about the "AI of Things" and some key legal issues for consumers
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Sign the petition: tell YouTube, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn and X to be transparent about viral content
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From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Sign the petition to stop Trump's kill switch and demand digital independence: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
New on the Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by our Professor Guido Noto La Diega and his co-authors (highlighting an open access article in the Journal of Consumer Policy), on the regulation of the Internet of Things for consumers in an era of cyborgification
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NEWS - our Professor Guido Noto La Diega @guidonld.bsky.social has been quoted in an article for @euobserver.com about AI deepfakes.
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Agreed, I explain how Grok is illegal (and what we can do about it) here: euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
AI deepfakes are on the rise and regrettably they often sexualise women and minors. As I told the EUObserver, EU Law is clear that these features, applications, etc. are illegal and both behavioural and monetary sanctions are likely to follow euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
And by me on Internet of Things, AI and privacy www.elgaronline.com/display/book...
2025 has been the amazing year that brought our son Charlie to me and my husband (he's just learned to walk π£ ). I am so grateful to Professor Adelyn Wilson and the University of Strathclyde for allowing me to spend a semester on parental leave and then another on family-friendly research leave. This is a testament to the Law School and wider University's commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion π . I resume my teaching and administrative duties today with renewed energy and enthusiasm and I cannot wait to welcome the new students of our LLM/MSc Law, Technology and Innovation next week π€ βοΈ ! I am deeply thankful to Dr Birgit Schippers for providing amazing stewardship to the master's and tech law research group during my absence, I know she'll enjoy a much-deserved semester of research leave π€ . I'm also looking forward to meeting my colleagues in and outwith Strathclyde Law School to resume our collaborations and explore new, exciting ones! β¨ https://lnkd.in/eVFDPDbt
After a year on leave, I'm back to leading the MSc/LLM Law, Technology and Innovation at @lawstrath.bsky.social, this semester I'll teach Human Rights and Digital Technologies, module coordinated by @adamharkens.bsky.social
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If you're an early career researcher (incl. PhD student) working on AI regulation you can't miss this!
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Join us and @bonavero.bsky.social this Human Rights Day, weβll be discussing how food, fuel and housing are all human rights issues, and how we can create a more equal and fair society
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Great to see this covered by the Guardian, proud to be one of the signatories!
The final straw β the Information Commissioner's Office has decided NOT to investigate the Afghan data leak. It's time to investigate them!
Over 70 organisations and experts back ORG's call for an inquiry into the regulator's chronic failure to enforce data law.
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SicilianΙ! Questo VenerdΓ¬ discuteremo di tecnologia e democrazia all'Istituto Arrupe, non mancate! TotΓ² Gaglio (Professore di IA) e io ne parleremo con Nino La Spina, autore del nuovo libro "Ridisegnare la Democrazia" (Armando Editore). Incontro aperto a tuttΙ!
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Data/privacy experts, please sign this open letter to ask for an inquiry into why the Information Commissioner's Office didn't investigate the Ministry of Defence about the 'Afghan leak' cloud.openrightsgroup.org/nextcloud/s/...
Over 10,000 people have added their name to keep Hampstead women's pond inclusive.
It only takes 1 minute. Will you join them?
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Shout out for the fab Strathclyde Law School and all the other departments/institutes in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences!
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users β in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industryβs marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAIβs ChatGPT and Appleβs Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! π€© Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industryβs marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Hi Bluesky folks, I've been away for 8 months (I'm a dad now!), what did I miss in the law, technology and innovation space? Not much I'm sureπ
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